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University of Birmingham Archipelagos and Meta-Archipelagos University of Birmingham Archipelagos and meta-archipelagos Matthews, Thomas DOI: 10.21425/F5FBG41470 License: Creative Commons: Attribution (CC BY) Document Version Peer reviewed version Citation for published version (Harvard): Matthews, T 2018, 'Archipelagos and meta-archipelagos', Frontiers of Biogeography, vol. 10, no. 3-4. https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG41470 Link to publication on Research at Birmingham portal General rights Unless a licence is specified above, all rights (including copyright and moral rights) in this document are retained by the authors and/or the copyright holders. 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Whittaker1,2, *, José M. Fernández-Palacios3, Thomas J. Matthews4,5, François 4Rigal5,6, Kostas A. Triantis7 51School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK. 62Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, 7University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. 83Island Ecology and Biogeography Research Group, Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades 9Tropicales y Salud Pública de Canarias (IUETSPC), Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, 10Canary Islands, Spain. 114School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Birmingham Institute of 12Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. 135Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (CE3C)–Azorean Biodiversity 14Group and Universidade dos Açores–Depto. de Ciências Agrárias e Engenharia do Ambiente, 15PT-9700-042, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal. 166CNRS - Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour – E2S UPPA, Institut des Sciences 17Analytiques et de Physico-Chimie pour l'Environnementet les Materiaux, MIRA, UMR5254, 1864000, PAU, France 197Department of Ecology and Taxonomy, Faculty of Biology, National and Kapodistrian 20University of Athens, Athens GR-15784, Greece. 21 22*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] 23Abstract 24The term meta-archipelago has been in use in cultural studies for some time, to refer 25to certain complex island areas in which the boundaries between conventionally 26recognised archipelagos are indistinct, although the concept also carries additional 27connotations. Use of the term in biogeography appears more recent and without effort 28to prescribe its meaning. We outline, from a biogeographical perspective, distinctions 29between meta-archipelagos and archipelagos and those islands not occurring within 30either collective grouping, highlighting that network analysis tools provide metrics for 31formal analytical purposes. 32Keywords: Biogeographical regions, island biogeography, meta-archipelago, 33modularity, network analysis 34Text 35 “…the Antilles are an island bridge connecting, in “another way,” North to South America. 36 This geographical accident gives the entire area, including its continental foci, the character of 37 an archipelago, that is, a discontinuous conjunction… [which] can be seen as an island that 1 1 38 “repeats” itself….Which one, then would be the repeating island, Jamaica, Aruba, Puerto 39 Rico, Miami, Haiti, Recife? Certainly none of the ones that we know. That original, that island 40 at the center, is as impossible to reach as the hypothetical Antilli[a] that reappeared time and 41 again, always fleetingly, in the cosmographers’ charts. This is again because the Caribbean is 42 a meta-archipelago…” Benítez Rojo and Maraniss (1985, p. 431–432) 43 44The etymology of the word archipelago points to a derivation linked to the Italian arcipelago 45as a name for the Aegean (principal sea) (Fig. 1). The wider meaning developed presumably 46since the Aegean Sea is replete with large numbers of islands. We use the term today for 47chains, clusters, or collections of islands. Yet in complex island regions such as the Caribbean 48or South-East Asia (Sunda Islands, New Guinea, Philippines) and parts of the South 49Pacific/Polynesia, it is often debatable where one archipelago ends and another begins 50(Benítez Rojo and Maraniss 1985, above). This matters in island biogeography as many of 51our analyses are based on data sets structured into archipelagos (e.g., Bunnefeld and 52Phillimore 2012). The rationale for this is that islands configured in isolated geographical 53groups exchange information (i.e., there are movements and exchanges of pollen, spores, 54propagules, individuals, semi-nomadic flocks, and perhaps even nutrients and energy) and 55they do so to a significantly greater degree than they do with any other more distant land- 56masses. 57 In analytical terms, some might argue the islands within such archipelagos to be 58spatially auto-correlated and thus non-independent data points. But this depends on the 59questions being asked. In practice, for some purposes island biologists are engaged in 60studying process and pattern at the intra-island level, while for other purposes it is the inter- 61island patterns within the archipelago (such as the species–area relationship) that are the 62focus of interest and analysis (e.g., Whittaker et al. 2017, Price et al. 2018). Moreover, to 63establish the generality of our models and hypotheses, we often wish to extend our analyses 64to encompass islands belonging to many sets of archipelagos (e.g., Bunnefeld and Phillimore 652012, Norder et al. 2018). This generates a further challenge, which is to determine the 66degree to which nearby archipelagos are truly independent ‘replicates’ as opposed to being 67interconnected by similar levels of information exchange as the islands within our 68archipelagos. As, increasingly, evidence of movement behaviours and of past propagule 69exchange and colonization events encoded in phylogenetic data demonstrates that even quite 70distant archipelagos can and do exchange ‘information’ (e.g., Gillespie et al. 2008, Hembry 71and Balukjian 2016), it is not always straightforward to determine ‘natural units’ for specific 72biogeographical analyses. Answering such a question becomes a matter of quantification and 73determining thresholds that might permit objective determination of where the boundaries 74between archipelagos can be drawn (see Box 1). Box 1. Distinguishing the meta-archipelago from the archipelago: a biogeographical definition A Meta-archipelago is a group of archipelagos that have and continue to exhibit a meaningful level of information exchange (e.g., propagules, colonization events) and within which such exchanges occur substantially more often than with other areas but significantly less than the case within a single archipelago. In cases of large, persistent and well isolated systems, the meta-archipelago may be equivalent to a biogeographical sub-region or perhaps to a biogeographical network, but the concept may also be applied to groups of entities within smaller, impermanent and less isolated systems, such as constellations of habitat islands. 2 2 76 77Figure 1. A map of the Aegean, by Nicolaum Visscher (1649-1702), published around 1681, 78illustrating a complex island region in which it is challenging to decide on archipelago or 79meta-archipelago membership from a biological perspective. Sourced from Wikimedia 80Commons, wherein it is stated that this is an image from the digital and/or physical 81collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Dutch National Library. 82 Biogeographers have of course been working on these questions since the foundations of 83the discipline (Box 2). At the coarsest of scales it is what biogeographical regionalization 84schemes are all about (Wallace 1880, Holt et al. 2013). In practice, the placing of distant 85oceanic islands into regionalization schemes has proven problematic because such islands 86often exhibit multiple source regions (Jønsson and Holt 2015). However, efforts have been 87made to draw lines sub-dividing ocean basins.
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